• What can a widow be?

  • Nov 15 2024
  • Length: 27 mins
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What can a widow be?

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  • For 28 days after her husband’s death, poet Molly Peacock woke up and cried. It was, in her words, a “full moon cycle" of tears.


    Then, on the 29th day, the tears subsided. The feelings that followed surprised her, they were of a wider spectrum than she expected — she likened it to a “widow’s crayon box”.


    In the documentary What Can a Widow Be?, Molly takes us with her on her journey as a widow. She discovered the cliché of the widow — the perpetual mourner — does not tell the full story. Being a widow, she discovered, is full of emotions she never saw coming, from hysterical yelling to moments of joy sitting in bed alone in the morning.


    As she grieved, she also wrote a collection of poems called, The Widow’s Crayon Box that she read excerpts from in the documentary.


    Produced by Alisa Siegel and edited by Liz Hoath / originally aired on The Current.


    The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock. Copyright (c) 2024 by Molly Peacock. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.


    Storylines is part of the CBC Audio Doc Unit

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